By decree and pro

Chapter 130

"Usman, how are you?!" Yan touched his forehead nervously, "Is there any discomfort?"

"Yanyan..." Usman raised his eyes slowly, his silver eyes shimmering like ice crystals.

"I'm here!" Yan stretched out his hand and tightly grasped Usman's hand resting on the bed.

"Yanyan, I dreamed that you...disappeared, without a trace left, my heart hurts so much." Usman was still a little dazed, with a sad expression on his face.

"Nonsense! I'm here in good condition. I haven't lost a single hair. Are you scared by what the doctor said?"

Two days ago, the doctor came to deliver longevity grass to Yan. Because he didn't know the physique of the Wuque people, he came to ask about the birth of the Wuque man. Yan told him what he knew, the situation of the emperor's brother's birth. down.Brother Huang was stimulated by the rebels at that time, and the delivery was not smooth. In addition, he was a twin, and his life was hanging by a thread. He almost...

Usman listened on the sidelines, frowning slightly, still holding Yan's hand, regardless of whether there were outsiders.

"Yanyan, I won't let anything happen to you." At that time, Usman looked extremely worried. Yan didn't expect him to be so worried, and even had a nightmare of his disappearance...

Usman stood up suddenly, hugged Yan's head tightly to his chest, and said in a low voice, "Why don't we give birth."

"What nonsense! I still want it if you don't want it!" Yan patted Usman's head, and the "boom" sound was similar to patting a watermelon, and all of Usman's bad thoughts were patted away.

"Yanyan, I was the one who said something stupid, don't be angry." Usman rubbed his head, showing his usual charming smile.

"I'm not angry, but the child is angry." Yan took Usman's hand and put it on his belly, "Hurry up and find a way to coax him."

"Baby," Usman patted Yan's still flat stomach seriously, and said softly, "It's my father's fault, because my father likes your father so much, and this childbirth is a step on your father's body." In the gate of hell..."

"Boom!" Yan patted Usman on the head again, "Why are you talking about this to the child?"

"I want him to be more obedient and not to trouble you."

"Are you obedient yourself?"

"what?"

"I asked you to coax the child, but you are good enough to scare him." Yan's face was full of confusion, "How did you become a father?"

"This is the truth, how could it be a scare?" Usman looked confused. "When my father told me that brothers and sisters are enemies, I didn't feel scared but understood it."

"That, that's because he was still a little kid, and you were already big at that time..."

"Yanyan, I was only six or seven years old at that time." Usman smiled, "Actually, I still have something to say to our children..."

"Stop," Yan raised his hand to seal Usman's mouth, "Whatever I say, just follow me and say it again."

"Huh?" Usman blinked twice, then nodded.

"Son, you can grow up in your father's womb with peace of mind, your father will give birth to you safely, and I, your father and king will always guard you until... the day when you can spread your wings alone. "

Usman stared at Yan, with a smile on his face, stroking Yan's abdomen with one hand, and said affectionately: "My child, you can grow up in your father's belly with peace of mind, your father will give birth to you safely, and I , your royal father will always guard you until the day you can spread your wings alone."

"Yeah." Yan smiled, and when he was about to say something, Usman held his face and kissed his lips.

The doctor is still there, Ilya is also there, and the officials and attendants who followed them all lined up and exited silently.

Since Yan discovered the ancient tomb on the cliff, there was no new discovery for ten days, which somewhat frustrated Yan.

However, there are many funerary objects in the tomb. Apart from the daily crocks and pottery, there are also ancient coins, wooden arrow clusters and some human bone inscriptions.

As the name suggests, these human bone inscriptions were chiseled on human corpses, and they were written in the ancient characters of Yancheng. Unfortunately, human bones are not as hard as stone, and many human bone inscriptions have defects. What epigraphers can identify is about "death" ", "sacrifice", "red ghost" and other words.

None of these words mentioned the specific location of Yancheng. Yan walked into this huge tomb, like walking into a dead end, even though all he could see were the ancient coffins of Yancheng, but no "person" could tell him where Yancheng was. .

After a busy day, Yan returned to the tent, where Usman was studying the human bone inscriptions excavated from the tomb.

A finely textured white linen cloth was spread on the huge table top, and a corpse was placed in the shape of a human being. The head, cervical spine, shoulder bones, and ankles were all complete.This is a male corpse with a thick skeleton, so the inscriptions carved on his bones are the best preserved.

"How is it?" Yan took a cup of milk tea from Ilya, and asked Usman while drinking it.

"Yanyan, when did you come back?" Usman put down the fine brush in his hand and asked in surprise.

"Just now," Yan smiled, "It's rare to see you so focused."

"Probably because it's scary." Usman suddenly asked with a thoughtful expression, "Is the child asleep?"

"Let me take a look," Yan looked down at his stomach, "Well, he's asleep, what do you want to say?"

Recently, they have often had such conversations, because Yan decided to strengthen each other's self-awareness as fathers before the child was born, so that they would not be in a hurry when the child was born.

Usman was very supportive and said that he would work hard to learn to be a good father. Of course, his definition of "good" often gave Yan a headache. For example, he told his children that he was the heir of the King of Xiliang and wanted to Anything goes.For another example, he asked the child to play with wolves, and said that wolves do not eat people.

"Why don't wolves eat people?!" Yan was furious at that moment.

"Wolves can eat people, but if they can't eat their own people, it's not considered cannibalism." Usman argued, "Shuangya is."

"Is Frostfang still a wolf? It's your pet!"

"Shuangfang is not a pet, it is a wolf king."

"I've never seen such a fat wolf king."

"Didn't you see Shuangfang when you saw it?"

"Don't play around with me, Shuangfang is not the wolf king!"

"Yanyan, do you not understand well?" Usman patiently explained, "Shuangya is the wolf king, but a fat wolf king."

"Usman, do you have bad ears? Shuangya is your pet, a very fat pet." Yan crossed his arms and corrected.

"Not a pet..."

"It's a pet!" When the two came back to their senses, they realized that they had had an extremely naive argument, and it was still in front of the children.

And Ilya watched it with gusto, and was so excited...

"Since you said that the child is asleep, then I can say it's a horrible place." Usman picked up a pointed awl and pointed to the crow's eye pattern carved on the naked body, "Here, there are all the carved words all over the body." And patterns, all are engraved alive."

"Alive?" Yan's scalp was numb, "Does it mean that he was still alive when the engraving was done?"

"Yes."

"Why do you do this? Is this some kind of torture?"

"It's not torture, but he is a sacrifice," Usman thought for a while, "If I'm not wrong, he sacrificed himself voluntarily."

"Is there anyone else who voluntarily does this kind of thing?" Yan Bujue gasped.

"It depends on what the ultimate purpose of the sacrifice is." Usman looked at the bones and said, "Maybe there were unavoidable circumstances at that time, and this kind of sacrifice of a living person appeared. Full of vermilion runes..."

When Usman said this, several nightmare images suddenly flashed in his head. He lowered his head and calmed down without a trace, and then said, "The priest used a slender knife to carve along these runes, Going deep into the bone... carved with a knife."

"No wonder you want to ask if the child is asleep. This is not something a child can listen to." Yan's face was a little pale, "What is the difference between such a sacrifice and torture?"

"The most regrettable thing is," Usman said, "no matter what their purpose of doing this sacrifice was, the result was a failure."

"How do you know they failed?"

"The ancient text on the bones has the meaning of 'life'. If it succeeds, these people should still be alive. And the corpses in those tombs," Usman paused, and further explained, "I have checked these days There are a total of 28 corpses, including [-] adult male corpses, five adult female corpses, and four child corpses, none of them lived long."

"Been stabbed to pieces by a knife, it would be strange if he could survive such torture." Yan was not surprised by this, but secretly lamented that such sacrificial activities are too cruel and inhumane, and those people are too pitiful.Especially when there are children among the sacrifices.

"...The corpses in the two ancient cities in succession all died unexpectedly," Yan Du didn't know what to say, "What's going on here?"

"Not only did he die unexpectedly, but he also performed sacrifices at the same time, and all of them failed."

"I really don't understand. Could it be that you can't live without offering sacrifices? Could it be that you were bewitched by a cult?"

"It's also possible."

"Hey, why do I feel that the more I search, the more confused I become, and I still don't know where the ancient city is?"

When Yan asked this question, Usman somehow remembered that when he was distracted that day, he saw Dan Erman in the reflection of the wine, and he stretched out his finger to point in one direction.

Usman thought about it carefully, his index finger pointed downward, but his eyes were fixed on Usman, as if to tell him something.

"Yan, is that cliff cave cemetery formed naturally?"

"That's right," Yan nodded, "I checked the caves, and they are all made of natural rocks. Of course, there are walls that have been chiseled by hand, probably to expand the caves and make it easier to place coffins."

"Is that hand-hewn wall in the southwest corner?"

"Yes, how did you know?" Yan was worried that Usman's health would be too much, so he didn't let him go to the gloomy and dangerous cliff cave cemetery, and only let him stay in the tent to study.

"Dig deep along the wall with the traces of manual chiseling." Usman said suddenly, "The gate of Danyang City is also underground."

"Wait, are you saying that these coffins are just a cover-up? They block the entrance of the ancient city?"

"I have this guess, but it's not true. You can only find out if you dig it out." Usman looked solemn, and suddenly said, "I hope it's not."

Yan is a little confused, why I hope not?But he still arranged according to Usman's words.

The workers quickly dug out an iron-wooden door that looked like a basement door, and after exhausting everyone's efforts to open it, there really was a hole inside.

Who can imagine that Yancheng, which has always existed in legends, is actually a city hidden in the cliff!